Support for Cortez Brown

Support for Cortez Brown

Tribune photo by Tom Van Dyke

Rev. Michael Pfleger and Rev. Louis Farrakhan arrive at Cook County Crimnal Court at 26th Street and California Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday. They were there to support Cortez Brown, a torture victim of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. Brown, man whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has filed a petition to get his murder conviction overturned.

Rev. Michael Pfleger and Rev. Louis Farrakhan arrive at Cook County Crimnal Court at 26th Street and California Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday. They were there to support Cortez Brown, a torture victim of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. Brown, man whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has filed a petition to get his murder conviction overturned. (Tribune photo by Tom Van Dyke)

Rev. Michael Pfleger and Rev. Louis Farrakhan arrive at Cook County Crimnal Court at 26th Street and California Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday. They were there to support Cortez Brown, a torture victim of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. Brown, man whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has filed a petition to get his murder conviction overturned.